Saturday, January 28, 2017

Canada moving toward criminalizing “Islamophobia”

Canada is inching toward a broadly-based law that would
codify “Islamophobia” as a hate crime without even defining Islamophobia
or demonstrating that it is a phenomenon requiring legal action.

A big question to bear in mind is why the “Islamophobia” motion was
“unanimously” agreed upon in Parliament. What happened to the few
Conservative members present? And to the interim leader of the
Conservative Party of Canada, and official opposition, Rona Ambrose?
Were they, too, intimidated into submission at the expense of Canadians?
This incursion of Islamic supremacists and their allies and lapdogs
peddling their wares into Canadian Parliament is a grave concern.
Islamophobia is, has been and will continue to be (in the words of
Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former Imam and member of the International
institute of Islamic Thought) a “loathsome term” which is “nothing more
than a thought-terminating cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim
think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.”
Now this “Islamophobia” motion is inching toward law in Canada, the
very real first step toward subjugating Canada under the Sharia and a
kind of blasphemy law: anyone who articulates the truth about Islam
faces legal Sharia penalties, a grave precedent with serious
implications for Canada and the West.

After first passing a motion that condemns Islamophobia,
last month, Iqra Khalid, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the governing
Liberals, tabled Motion M-103 in the House of Commons. The motion
demands that Islamophobia be treated as a crime without even bothering
to define the offense.

Here is some information about Khalid, previously reported at Jihad Watch:

Last January,
Khalid met with board members of Palestine House in Mississauga (near
Toronto) and a “large number of members of the Palestinian community,”
including Palestinian political activists. Palestine House supports the
Palestinian al-Quds Intifada, and its settlement program was defunded by the former Conservative Harper government for allying itself with terrorism…..
According to the Canadian Arab newspaper Meshwar,
which covered the event at Palestine House in honour of Khalid, “the
purpose of the event was to strengthen the relationship between the
members of the [Palestinian] community and the Liberal members of
Parliament.”
That same newspaper published an article
by Jordanian activist Hisham al-Habishan, who stated that the US and
the “ Zionist-Masonic movement” were behind the Islamic State, with the
intention of weakening the Arab region…
Also at the event for Khalid was Meshwar editor Nazih Khatatba, who once “advised al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, to change their
policy and instead of uttering threats at Israel, to demand from Mahmoud
Abbas, the Palestinian President and the leader of the PLO and Fatah
movement, to re-arm them.” Khatatba openly calls for armed jihad
against the state of Israel, and his position is welcomed and supported
by the politics of Palestine House. Yet Iqra Khalid, a member of the
Canadian Parliament, was hosted by this jihad-supporting hate
organization.

It will behoove America and every Western freedom-loving state to pay attention to the decline of Canada into dhimmitude.
Sharia restricts the freedom of speech; this restriction is paramount to the supremacy of political Islam.

Canada is inching toward a broadly-based law that would
codify “Islamophobia” as a hate crime without even defining Islamophobia
or demonstrating that it is a phenomenon requiring legal action.
After first passing a motion that condemns Islamophobia, last month,
Iqra Khalid, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the governing Liberals,
tabled Motion M-103 in the House of Commons. The motion demands that
Islamophobia be treated as a crime without even bothering to define the
offense.
Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the leftist New Democrat Party, read the first motion in the House of Commons:
“Mr. Speaker, in a moment I will be seeking unanimous consent for an
important motion based on the e-petition sponsored by the Hon. Member
for Pierrefonds–Dollard that asks that we, the House of Commons, condemn
all forms of Islamophobia,” Mulcair said.
Though he did not receive the unanimous consent that he craved
because some official opposition Conservative MPs shouted, “Nay,”
Mulcair’s motion passed. No mainstream media outlet reported this
parliamentary activity; some social media blogs and private news
websites discussed the motion.
Then last month, Liberal MP Khalid introduced another more
comprehensive motion that “the government should recognize the need to
quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear… condemn
Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious
discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the
issues raised by it…and request that the Standing Committee on Canadian
Heritage undertake a study.”
Khalid recommends that Islamophobia — whatever that is — be treated
as a hate crime by the federal government and that it “collect data to
contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs assessments for
impacted communities.”
This motion was tabled for debate. Khalid’s communications assistant,
Anas Marwah, told The Daily Caller that they expect the motion to come
up for discussion in a couple of weeks. “The motion has technically not
been introduced, but just tabled; it may be up for first reading in
early February,” he said.
The motion has received virtually no mention in the mainstream media…….